Jeremy Kemp

Jeremy Kemp
Born	Jeremy Walker (1935-01-03) 3 January 1935 Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Actor, Series
Years active	1958–1998

Jeremy Kemp (born 3 January 1935) is an English actor. He is known for his significant roles in the miniseries The Winds of War, the film The Blue Max and the TV series Z-Cars.

Kemp was born Jeremy Walker in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, the son of Elsa May (née Kemp) and Edmund Reginald Walker, an engineer, and studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama. His TV credits include: Colditz, Space: 1999 and a number of other series such as: Hart to Hart, The Greatest American Hero, The Fall Guy, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Conan the Adventurer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance and Murder, She Wrote. He played King Leontes in the BBC Television production of The Winter's Tale (1981). He also appeared as Cornwall in the 1984 TV movie version of King Lear opposite Laurence Olivier as Lear.

For a while, from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, Kemp had a prominent film career, usually appearing as second male leads or top supporting roles. His films include Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Operation Crossbow, The Blue Max, Darling Lili, A Bridge Too Far, Top Secret! and Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Partial filmography

• Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
• Operation Crossbow (1965)
• Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
• The Blue Max (1966)
• Assignment K (1968)
• The Strange Affair (1968)
• A Twist of Sand (1968)
• Darling Lili (1970)
• Eyewitness (1970)
• The Games (1970)
• Pope Joan (1972)
• The Belstone Fox (1973)
• The Blockhouse (1973)
• Lips of Lurid Blue (1975)
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
• A Bridge Too Far (1977)
• East of Elephant Rock (1977)
• The Rhinemann Exchange (1977) (TV film)
• Leopard in the Snow (1978)
• Caravans (1978)
• The Treasure Seekers (1979)
• The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
• The Return of the Soldier (1982)
• The Winds of War (1983)
• George Washington (1984)
• Top Secret! (1984)
• Peter the Great (1986)
• War and Remembrance (1988)
• When the Whales Came (1989)
• Prisoner of Honor (1991) (TV film)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
• Angels & Insects (1995)

External links

• Jeremy Kemp at the Internet Movie Database